President Barack Obama's (D) Attorney General, Eric Holder defiantly defended the federal government's "right" to target American citizens with drone strikes. He argued in recent publications that it might be necessary to kill Americans on U.S. soil with warrantless drone death strikes to prevent "terrorism".

Some Americans felt such killings were unconstitutional, while other Americans defended the President's stance, arguing the Constitution no longer applies in an age of terrorism.

A fleet of fully autonomous armed drones could prove a powerful tool for Presidents in decades to come. With a press of a button they could instantly schedule the warrantless death sentence of the President's domestic adversaries (the "terrorists", ostensibly) without the kind of pesky ethical/moral struggles that even elite U.S. troops might have with such policies.

I think he's a great president. He gets attacked for all this little stuff, but in 20 years we'll look back at the guy who finally did what nobody else could: turn the economy around from the worst recession in nearly a century, killed Osama Bin Laden, and passed universal healthcare, joining the rest of the industrialized countries of the world.

Yeah, White House cover ups, spying on the political opposition, etc. Just like Nixon did. Did you liberal Dems think THAT was a small deal when Nixon did it? Irrespective of course that unlike Bengazi, nobody DIED during the lies and coverup of Watergate. And I'm so sure you liberals would have thought a Bush IRS targeting liberal non-profits like King George Soros' Media Matters would have been "little stuff" either. Don't make me laugh.

quote: turn the economy around from the worst recession in nearly a century

Idiotic comment at best. Nobody was lining up in the soup lines. Further, if you think record households on food stamps, record households in poverty, record long term unemployment, 9 million jobs lost since Obama took office in 2009, record high gas and energy prices, record high food prices, a dollar and debt rating that continues to plummet with fake money being pumped into the economy by Bernanke is turning around the economy, then you aren't living on this planet.

quote: killed Osama Bin Laden

Obama had about as much to do with getting Bin Laden as Oprah. Years of intelligence gathering, including using "enhanced" interrogation techniques from the Bush administration (that Obama and Democrats were vehemently against) led to it. Obama made a phone call, got the hell out of the way and let others do what they'd been doing for years, and that's about it.

quote: passed universal healthcare, joining the rest of the industrialized countries of the world.

Meanwhile in the real world, next year when Obamacare kicks in, Americans will wonder why their doctors are retiring, small and medium sized companies aren't hiring, and their health insurance premiums are skyrocketing 200-400%.

quote: Idiotic comment at best. Nobody was lining up in the soup lines. Further, if you think record households on food stamps, record households in poverty, record long term unemployment, 9 million jobs lost since Obama took office in 2009, record high gas and energy prices, record high food prices, a dollar and debt rating that continues to plummet with fake money being pumped into the economy by Bernanke is turning around the economy, then you aren't living on this planet.

To be fair, Obama has no control over fuel prices. Those are global commodities at the mercy of a world market. Asia's exploding energy demand drives fuel costs even more than OPEC's limiting of production (which they sometimes relax when oil prices go too nuts).

Food prices - we could do with less subsidizing of the booming corn industry but even then part of the food hikes are down to droughts and other issues (colder winters recently + poor summers in Europe/Asia) which influence supply.

I agree on nearly all your other points. Also, whoever calls killing citizens without warrant using drones a "small thing" needs to carefully assess "reality".